Revelation 12:1-3 |
Revelation 12:4 & 5 |
Revelation 12:6-17 |
Leviticus 23:5 The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.
1 Corinthians 5:7 For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Luke 23:44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, 45 for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” Psalm 31:5 When he had said this, he breathed his last.Jesus' soul and spirit is sent to His Father until His body is buried
Matthew 12:38 Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”39 He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Luke 23:50 Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the Council, a good and upright man, 51 who had not consented to their decision and action. He came from the Judean town of Arimathea, and he himself was waiting for the kingdom of God. 52 Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. 53 Then he took it down, wrapped it in linen cloth and placed it in a tomb cut in the rock, one in which no one had yet been laid. 54 It was Preparation Day, and the Sabbath was about to begin.
Leviticus 23: 6 On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. 7 On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.Jesus' Resurrection
Luke 23:55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. 56 Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.
53 They (the holy people) came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection
Ephesians 4:9...he also descended to the lower, earthly regions...
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago
Romans 6:4 Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father...Romans 8:11 Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead...
The Witness of the Holy People of Jesus' resurrection
Matthew 27:52 The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.During Jesus' three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, the holy people go from their tombs to Jerusalem to bear witness of Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
Matthew 27:62 The next day (Thursday Nisan 15), the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees went to Pilate. 63 “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ 64 So give the order for the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, his disciples may come and steal the body and tell the people that he has been raised from the dead. This last deception will be worse than the first.”65 “Take a guard,” Pilate answered. “Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by putting a seal on the stone and posting the guard.
What they did not know was that Jesus' tomb was empty, He was giving them the sign of Jonah as they had demanded from Jesus,
Fast forward to Saturday, Nisan 17, the regular weekly Sabbath Day before Sunday, Nisan 18, after sunset, that would begin the fourth night since Jesus' burial.
1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in turn:24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death. 27 For he “has put everything under his feet.”
- Christ,
- the firstfruits; (the holy ones in Matthew 27:51-53)
- then, when He comes, those who belong to him. (the rapture 1 Corinthians 15:50-54 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
1 Peter 3:19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago
After the soul/spirit of the Old Testament saints are gathered to be taken into heaven, because Jesus' blood had atoned their sin and opened heaven for them to enter, Jesus ascends with a loud proclamation like "It is finished!" that is heard into the torment side of Sheol/Hades "to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water.
Ephesians 4:8 This is why it says:“When he ascended on high,he took many captivesand gave gifts to his people.” Psalm 68:189 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)